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...North American Aviation, Inc., $647.7 million, including F-100 and F107 fighters, the Navy's A3J twin-jet supersonic bomber, engines for the Atlas, other rocket engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Got What | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Beech MS-760, a sleek four-place, twin-jet transport that Beech is importing from France's Morane-Saulnier to try out the executive jet market. Cruising speed: 350 m.p.h. over a 1,000-mile range. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEWEST PLANES | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...shine even brighter. One important project is Cessna's YH-41 light helicopter, now undergoing tests for the U.S. Army; eventually Cessna hopes to develop a vast commercial market. A second is jets. Last week Cessna landed another $10 million Air Force order for its 400-m.p.h. twin-jet T-37 trainer, booking production solidly for two years. When Wallace decides that U.S. businessmen want a jet, Cessna will be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PRIVATE PLANES ON THE RISE | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Russian Challenge | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Streaking over California's Mojave Desert at an altitude of 39,000 ft. one ay last week, Air Force Major Adrian . Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vhoosh | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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